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Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
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The many are more incorruptible than the few they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.
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Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .
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People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.
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A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.
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So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.
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A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.
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Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.
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People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
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In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.
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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.
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To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
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When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.
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The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.
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Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.
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If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.
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A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance
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No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.
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One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.
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What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.
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